Man sets mouse on fire, mouse burns man's house down

[FVZA_Colonel]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/08/mouse.fire.ap/index.html



Vengeful mouse sets house ablaze

Monday, January 9, 2006

FORT SUMNER, New Mexico (AP) -- A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran back to the man's house and set it on fire.

Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it.

"I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house," Mares said from a motel room Saturday.

Village Fire Chief Juan Chavez said the burning mouse ran to just beneath a window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout the house.

[LisaL]

1. What an idiot.

The man, not the mouse.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. But he was able to laugh about it.

He gets points for that in my book, considering everything he owned went up in smoke.

[LisaL]

3. He is probably laughing because he is senile. JMO, of course.

[DemBones DemBones]

6. The firefighter I saw on TV said the guy had a great sense of humor,

that he was laughing about it, laughing at himself.

Not all octagenarians are senile.

[qnr]

4. I wonder if he's going to get fined for burning in conditions like that?

[msanthrope]

5. Good for the mouse. n/t